Sentences with phrase «which sacrificial»

And this is the metaphor on which sacrificial atonement is based, btw.

He addresses the halter by which a sacrificial victim is bound to the stake thus: «Become no snake — become no viper.»

What are the background ontological circumstances against which the sacrificial gesture would be situated?

To risk a generalization even more reckless than those I have already made: from the time of the pre-Socratics, all the great speculative and moral systems of the pagan world were, in varying degrees, confined to this totality, to either its innermost mechanisms or outermost boundaries; rarely did any of them catch even a glimpse of what might lie beyond such a world; and none could conceive of reality except as a kind of strife between order and disorder, within which a sacrificial economy held all forces in tension.

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In his view the valuation of goods finds its origins in the selection of sacrificial animals «in the cult, not in commerce (which knows no basis for typology, but remains purely individualistic).»

The most generous and sacrificial people I know have all had some sort of experience in which God birthed compassion in them through exposure to the poor while on a mission trip.

Probably because of the abuses associated with this scheme, a notion developed in the Aranyaka period which explained that the cosmic power might also be known through symbolic meditation upon sacrificial procedure (1:1.35).

Pastor Ryan Schneider, who married them and who leads a Bible study in which they participate, tells FCA Magazine that Nic's sacrificial support of Elana, prioritizing her training and her needs above his own, is «the perfect picture of a husband loving his wife like Christ loved the church.»

Lewis» most successful novel, I believe, is the first part of his science - fiction trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet, in which a Cambridge don named Ransom is kidnapped by two diabolical characters, the scientist Weston and the entrepreneur Devine, and transported via rocket ship as a sacrificial victim to the inhabitants of another planet called Malacandra (Mars).12.

I have several more posts written over the next several days which show this even more clearly from Cain and Abel, Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac, and the Mosaic sacrificial system.

This is a sacrificial meal, a ritual meal, in which we enjoy communion with God.

(I John 4:7 - 8) As for the sacrificial system, that had been displaced by a moral and universally applicable substitute — «Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.»

Afterwards the priests ate a sacrificial meal of that flesh which had not been burnt.

In his young manhood he supported the Josian reform by which local high places were abolished and sacrificial worship centered in Jerusalem.

The word «sacrifice» is almost inexhaustible in its polysemy, particularly in the Old Testament, but the only sacrificial model explicitly invoked in the New Testament is that of the Atonement offering of Israel, which certainly belongs to no cosmic cycle of prudent expenditure and indemnity.

Stoicism offers an obvious example: a vision of the universe as a fated, eternally repeated divine and cosmic history, a world in which finite forms must constantly perish simply in order to make room for others, and which in its entirety is always consumed in a final ecpyrosis (which makes a sacrificial pyre, so to speak, of the whole universe).

Historians of religion in the nineteenth century referred to the sacrificial system of ancient Israel as a form of do ut des, which could be paraphrased: «I am putting this small animal I have reared on an altar as a gift for you in hopes that you will bestow your blessing on me.»

But instead comes Easter, which rudely interrupts all the minatory and sententious moralisms of the tragic chorus, just as they are about to be uttered to full effect, and which cavalierly violates the central tenet of sound economics: rather than trading the sacrificial victim for some supernatural benefit, and so the particular for the universal, Easter restores the slain hero in his particularity again, as the only truth the Gospels have to offer.

This mythological interpretation is a hotch - potch of sacrificial and juridical analogies, which have ceased to be tenable for us today.

Likewise, the Isa of the Qur» an is an artificial construct designed to undercut the authentic, New Covenant Jesus» sacrificial death, resurrection, and free offer of salvation to all Muslims... all of which Muslim apologists and teachers deny.

It leads me (some would say, compels me) to believe a string of truths regularly denied in circles which reject or reduce the Scripture principle: the reality of Satan; the existence of angels; the bodily resurrection and sacrificial atonement of Christ; the historical fall into sin; the deity as well as humanity of our Lord; the certainty of his coming again; and the dreadful judgment of the wicked.

In summary, I have suggested that love is voluntary and freely given; that since it involves moral volition, it must be personally mediated; that love is sacrificial, and thus limited to the extent to which an individual is capable of personally absorbing the consequences of its acts; and finally, that love extends beyond duty or moral obligation (implying that it must first fulfill moral obligation or duty).

Such sacrificial willingness is supremely Christlike, which only goes to show that if Paul were indeed to die for Christ as he desires, this would not separate Him from Jesus but would instead be the perfect representation of Jesus in His sacrifice for us.

So now, the author of Hebrews says, if these Hebrew Christians return to the sacrificial system, then there is not sacrifice there which can offer forgiveness of sins or eternal life.

A meal which includes meat is a sacrificial meal.

Active participation in the sacrificial process was the means through which the person was able to «come close» to God in order to feel remorse.

If you want to rescue people from that road, you do it the way Jesus did it, which is by sacrificial love and service.

Ask another what a home is, and a very different answer would be given: A home is a place where we have to consider the wishes of others, where we can not always have our own way, where children fall sick and require sacrificial care, where puzzling problems rise which it is hard to settle, where we must be true to love to keep it, where every day brings some small self - denial and every year some great one.

Just as the law was to point to Christ so was the sacrificial system (which is essentially a part of the law).

Now, blood was the best way for atonement because it required the sinner to play an active role in the sacrificial process by giving up and slaughtering his own animal, however not everyone owned animals which is why God arranged alternate processes to give flour and money as atonement offerings.

I think that Mr. Bottum hears their tone and misses their point because he assumes that the United States represents the «Christian alternative to the sacrificial logic by which mythic cultures are founded.»

If we put aside Roy's «doppelgänger» ideas, we find that her passage is even more directly relevant in that it is concerned with the ways in which the American version of sacrificial logic is currently devastating natural and cultural goodness throughout the world.

Secondly, as an action the Eucharist is sacrificial in quality, since it has to do with an oblation, offering, or self - giving which was the characteristic mark of the life of Jesus in obedience to what he took to be the vocation given him by his heavenly Father.

In His death, Jesus exposed the emptiness of the sacrificial system for what it was: a form of satanic enslavement by which humans think they are appeasing God for that which He had already forgiven them for.

Moses and angels are responsible for the Law and its sacrificial system — which is a reflection of human thinking, not God's need or want for blood sacrifice.

The expiation of sin achieved by Jesus» priestly sacrificial death on the cross is brought to fulfilment in the Eucharist of which Jesus is the heavenly high priest.

In societies in which violence is rampant on the street and in the media, the nursing Virgin can perhaps communicate God's love to people in a way that a violent image, the image of one more sacrificial victim, can not.

Although the exact verses are not decipherable, van Gogh was well acquainted with Isaiah 53:3 - 5, which foretells the suffering of Christ as the sacrificial lamb.

Sacrificial love completes the incompleteness of mutual love, clarifies and defines the ethical possibilities of history, and represents a perfection which contradicts the false pretensions of virtue in history.13

But they who by sacrificial offering, charity, and austerity conquer the worlds, pass into the smoke (of the cremation - fire); from the smoke, into the night; from the night, into the half month of the waning moon; from the half month of the waning moon, into the six months during which the sun moves southwaid; from those months, into the world of the fathers; from the world of the fathers, into the moon.

They take no note of the sacrificial devotion with which some youths are taking this chaotic, bloody world from the hands of the older generation in the hope of making something out of it.

The love which intends the mutuality of the Kingdom must become by that very intention sacrificial love, for the good is more than my good and the real good involves the giving of myself to the whole.

We need to comprehend the first link if we are to understand something of the process by which sacrifice was displaced from an actual bloody ritual practice to a metaphor for moral action, such that we can now say «he was very self - sacrificial» and not mean «he offered his body to Aztec priests.»

For such thinkers as Jan Patocka, Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, and, to a certain extent, Jean - Luc Marion, the highest ethical gesture is a sacrificial self - offering which expects no benefit in return.

That personal attitude which the individual finds himself impelled to take up towards what he apprehends to be the divine — and you will remember that this was our definition — will prove to be both a helpless and a sacrificial attitude.

* And for those who claim that all Christians are giving and sacrificial (hahahahaha)-- the plain and simple truth is that if the 60 % of Americans acted in the manner in which Jesus required, our country would have no foster kids — no starving kids, no sick kids, no sick people, no starving people... etc..

He fulfilled the Sacrificial aspect of the Law, which was always merely a type and shadow of His sacrifice, but His Law of Love, and the Law of Moses are still, and will always be, the same!

So secular society is driven by transmuted religious impulses, transmuted sacrificial behaviors, one of which is fear of global warming.

In our future examples, even of the simplest and healthiest - minded type of religious consciousness, we shall find this complex sacrificial constitution, in which a higher happiness holds a lower unhappiness in check.

It teaches us to put another before ourselves, which can contribute to learning how to love our neighbour in a truly sacrificial sense.